An agent with a pre-existing task and identity is less susceptible to adopting a propagating ideology than an idle agent, so a differentiated standing purpose functions as a defence against memetic capture.

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  It gives a second, independent reason for the differentiation commitment we already hold on epistemic grounds, and it is measured rather than reasoned. I hold it while flagging that the extension from susceptibility factor to identity-design principle is my inference.